IBM sustainability solutions
Empower a resilient, sustainable future
See how industry leaders are embracing sustainability to drive new value for their businesses.
Overview
Accelerate your sustainability journey
We’re doing business in an unpredictable world. Success requires new levels of resilience and agility, rooted in responsible practices that preserve our planet for future generations. Sustainability is now a strategic business imperative.
IBM can help you plan a sustainable and profitable path forward with open, AI-powered solutions and platforms and deep industry expertise that address your goals in five key areas: climate risk management, infrastructure and operations, supply chain, electrification, energy and emissions management, and sustainability strategy.
Benefits
Comply
Meet regulatory requirements and compliance deadlines, and measure and report progress over time.
Optimize
Reduce resources consumed while improving your operational efficiencies and your bottom line.
Transform
Create a more resilient, sustainable business ready for disruption and opportunity.
Climate risk management
Enable sustainable development and prepare for the unexpected with solutions that bring together your proprietary and third-party geospatial, weather and IoT data to predict and plan for critical weather events. Effectively respond with advanced analytics on your assets, employees and customers to ensure business continuity.
Resilient infrastructure and intelligent operations
Create more resilient, sustainable infrastructure and operations with intelligent asset management, monitoring and predictive maintenance. Extend the life of equipment, buildings, bridges, water lines and more. Incorporate sustainability considerations and use IoT data, AI and analytics to reduce operational downtime and costs, C02 and waste generated, and resources consumed.
Sustainable supply chains
Reduce waste and lower cost-to-serve by providing greater supply-chain visibility with up-to-the minute inventory views and performance insights. Minimize logistics-related emissions by optimizing fulfillment and delivery with advanced AI. Tackle complex Scope 3 emissions challenges by establishing product provenance, driving trust and transparency across your supply chain and empowering consumers with multi-enterprise business networks built on blockchain.
Electrification, energy and emissions management
Enhance grid efficiency, safety, reliability and resilience with intelligent asset management for energy and utilities. Implement smart metering to better understand actual resource use, lower costs and enhance services through automation. Capitalize on AI to reduce call center operation costs and improve experiences for every energy and utilities customer.
Sustainability strategy
Embed sustainability into your business and get the insights you need to operationalize at scale. IBM Garage for Sustainability experts can help you identify top challenges and opportunities, prioritize critical actions, and measure outcomes against sustainability and business goals to realize results in weeks instead of months.
Client stories
Sund & Baelt
Sund & Baelt
Find out how Sund & Baelt is using AI and IoT to preserve and protect some of the world’s largest infrastructure.
E. & J. Gallo Winery
E. & J. Gallo Winery
Learn how E. & J. Gallo Winery is producing better wine while minimizing water waste and achieving regulatory compliance with weather and IoT data.
RCS Global Group
RCS Global Group
Find out how RCS Global Group is enabling responsible sourcing of cobalt for lithium-ion batteries by using blockchain.
Energinet
Energinet
Learn how Energinet is helping grid operators manage supply and demand with a multicloud solution that gleans operational predictions from big data using AI.
Farmer Connect
Farmer Connect
See how Farmer Connect is using blockchain to help consumers support responsible and sustainable coffee production, from farm to cup.
Kvarøy Arctic
Kvarøy Arctic
Discover how Kvarøy Arctic is enabling product traceability with blockchain, increasing trust and transparency in salmon farming.
Yara
Yara
Find out how Yara is helping smallholder farmers manage the impact of climate change with hyperlocal and reliable weather insights powered by cloud and AI.
Sustainability at IBM
Our story
IBM is client zero in the battle for enterprise sustainability. Learn more about our history of environmental leadership and our commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
IBM's Wayne Balta and Kareem Yusuf
IBM Research
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